Amistad Village, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Del Rio census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78840. The Survey maps it on the Amistad Dam quadrangle.

Amistad Village within Val Verde County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1943 USGS Devils River quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1944 USGS Devils River quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Amistad Dam quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Amistad Village quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Amistad Village between 1992 and 2017, burning about 38 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Fireworks	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	3
Debris and open burning	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
15 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
10 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Amistad National Recreation Area	VIEWPOINT
7 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WEST FIRE #1
28 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Amistad National Recreation Area	CLIFFS
23 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Amistad National Recreation Area	DIABLO EAST PICNIC FIRE
1 August 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Amistad National Recreation Area	RAILROAD
9 July 2003	Fireworks	under an acre	Amistad National Recreation Area	SPUR454 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Val Verde County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lake View Addition Colonia	4.3 miles	7
Lake View	4.5 miles	7
Los Campos Number 3 and 4 Colonia	5.1 miles	7
Los Campos Number 1,2 and 5 Colonia	6.1 miles	7
Cienegas Terrace Colonia	7.7 miles	7
Cienegas Terrace	7.9 miles	7
Amistad Acres	8.2 miles	7
Owens Addition Number 2 Colonia	8.4 miles	7

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122544305

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1329501. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.